Been life researching people that I love and respect in the communities I belong in. Their words, healing, and insights have directed me to answers through my mamihood angst surrounding behavioral changes from little one, explicitly outbursts, my concern and plan for action. Through stories shared about their lives, I’ve gained invaluable lessons found in their experiences, in between their words, I’ve connected to the higher wisdom to not let shame, guilt, and fear stagnate me.
Earlier a sister and I skyped away about brown young motherhood, reaffirming strength and our adventuresome selves. As I tried to demonstrate that adventuresome and mamihood can go hand and hand– showing her pictures of Amaya and I in Guerrero, in San Diego, and Ensenada (I realize that this is very privileged, adventuresome by mobility to far away places, it happened when I was partnered) taking me down memory lane of travel with my little one, and it brought a much needed reminder that my little one and I have had the fortune to visit many beaches, snowy mountains, Mexico, San Diego, the train rides and frequent neighborhood bike rides, it was a much needed pictorial affirmation.
Skyping, gchatting, face-to-face (been fortunate to have most of it be this way) heart pouring, listening, hearing other children antics, inspiration flowing from many mouths, sprouting inspiration in me.
Today Skype, flickr account sharing – fed my strength, then the next “action” steps became clear, easy to start.
My motto now is healing by any means necessary, sometimes rejecting energy draining Internets or being enhanced by our humanity engaging in transformational Internet dialogues.
Healing one conversation at a time.
Hermana, Resist is a personal, political zine with literary tendencies which manifest in forms of poetry, free verse, haiku, short stories, journal entries, rants, raves, critiques, commentaries, photos, recipes and dreamy manifestos. 
